It can cost you $9.99 per month on your phone bill
There seems to be an increasing amount of Facebook spam that spreads by social engineering – which is tough to stop since it’s Facebook users who are being tricked into “liking” the site (and reposting the spam five times if they pursue the following.)
We’ve found a lot of them. This one’s typical. The whole point of the exercise is to trick you into giving away your phone number so it can be billed something like $9.99 per month and send five of your friends to the same site to do the same. Oh, and show all your Facebook friends that you “like” a spam site
First you get a message from a friend that looks something like this:
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The link takes you here:
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Note that somebody got paid (per click) for sucking in over 16,000 people on this one.
The gig is that you’re supposed to “like” this then share the text they give you.
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After you fall for that you “click here” to see who viewed your profile.
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Then the “verification” launches you into one of those endless surveys (you get a choice of six) the point of which is to collect your cell phone number so you can be billed $9.99 per month.
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And, if you’re running Firefox’s Adblock add-on to protect you from such crap, these folks will even help you disable it!!
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And after all that, here is your prize. Everybody seems to get the same one:
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Thanks Wendy and Matthew.
Tom Kelchner